Re: looking for u-boot testers
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 12:55 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I'm looking for people willing to test u-boot targets on an ongoing
> basis for various platforms. While I have a handful of boards I can test
> on, I don't have the hardware or perhaps more importantly, the time to
> always test on all of them.
>
> I hope this sounds like a reasonable approach to folks...
>
> I'm thinking of making this a requirement for enabling future boards in
> the debian u-boot packages, otherwise we might end up shipping packages
> which include support for broken boards. And certainly a requirement
> with requests for patches not yet mainlined...
I think this is a very reasonable requirement, even for platforms which
have been mainlined. But as you say, even more so for non-mainlined
boards, where in addition it would seem reasonable to me for the named
person to also take some responsibility for rebasing any related
patches.
The debian-kernel team requires that all patches (with few exceptions)
be backports from mainline Linux. IME getting a new platform upstreamed
to u-boot was not any harder than getting something into Linux. So I
don't think it would be unreasonable to apply a similar rule to the
u-boot packages.
Ian.
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